DONALD HUTERA in The Times sees 'Bounce'<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>STREET dance is an umbrella term for a slew of contemporary, urban kinetic styles that grew out of hip hop culture and developed globally to incorporate funky, jazzy, African roots into the mix.<P>Bounce, which has an eight-week run at London’s Roundhouse, is far from an academic display of street-dance fecundity. Its primary function is to entertain. Fair enough. But what the producers and director Anthony van Laast have done is, I suspect, akin to what can happen when flamenco or tango are lifted out of the club or dance-hall and slapped on to the stage. Some of the life-blood, the raw juice of personal artistic expression, is siphoned off for mass consumption.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR><A HREF="Http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,62-123000,00.html" TARGET=_blank><B>More...</B></A>
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